I've always been a queasy person - fainting in biology at school and not lasting more than an hour in any first aid course! Overhearing a conversation between two ladies on a tube train one evening coming home from work I had to alight before my scheduled stop - their conversation - a sprained ankle.
So it's with this mindset I have yet to venture my eyes on my healing burn. I'd accidentally touched a small part on my elbow whilst putting cream on and had to sit down as I felt light headed.
A big step forward at my hospital appointment today I looked at photos of a burn to someones foot. the stages I saw were a year on, a month on, and seventeen days on form the accident. After hot sweats, panic attacks I looked and was amazed at how well the persons burn had healed. I need to now transfer that image onto my arm to envisage it healing under the bandages. It was felt that I need not look at photos nearer to a burn accident as I had passed that point. My accident occurred just under three weeks ago.
Now when the nurses who change my dressings say the burn is healing I believe them. The skill of the surgeon, care of ward nurses, physiotherapist, psychologist and outpatient nurses are an amazing part of the healing process.
So it's with this mindset I have yet to venture my eyes on my healing burn. I'd accidentally touched a small part on my elbow whilst putting cream on and had to sit down as I felt light headed.
A big step forward at my hospital appointment today I looked at photos of a burn to someones foot. the stages I saw were a year on, a month on, and seventeen days on form the accident. After hot sweats, panic attacks I looked and was amazed at how well the persons burn had healed. I need to now transfer that image onto my arm to envisage it healing under the bandages. It was felt that I need not look at photos nearer to a burn accident as I had passed that point. My accident occurred just under three weeks ago.
Now when the nurses who change my dressings say the burn is healing I believe them. The skill of the surgeon, care of ward nurses, physiotherapist, psychologist and outpatient nurses are an amazing part of the healing process.
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